Pete Hegseth‘s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds. But more than three dozen news orgs have said they are refusing to sign on to the requirements.
On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules. The Pentagon has told reporters they must sign an agreement for the new rules by Tuesday or turn in their press passes by Wednesday.
According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified). If they do not, they will potentially be barred from the Pentagon.
“Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
The five networks join a number of other news orgs that have already said they won’t agree to the new rules being imposed by Hegseth, a former Fox News host. Those include the New York Times, AP, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, NewsNation and the Hill, along with conservative-leaning outlets like Newsmax and the Washington Examiner.
At press time, only one outlet has said it plans to sign on to the new rules announced by the Pentagon, which the Trump administration now calls the “U.S. Department of War”: pro-Trump network One America News Network (OANN).
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Here’s the current full list of news outlets that have refused to sign the Pentagon’s new rules, as compiled by the Washington Post:
ABC News AL-Monitor Associated Press The Atlantic Aviation Week Axios Bloomberg News Breaking Defense C4ISRNET CBS News CNN Defense Daily Defense News Defense One The Economist Federal Times The Financial Times Fox News The Guardian The Hill HuffPost Military Times MSNBC NBC News The New York Times Newsmax NewsNation NPR PBS NewsHour Politico RealClearPolitics Reuters Task & Purpose The Wall Street Journal The Washington Examiner The Washington Post The Washington Times WTOP
I’m going to let this post stay up even though it is VERY close to Orphan Grinding Machine territory, if only because it’s a positive story set in a generally negative timeline.
See, with this comm, I totally get that this story is right on the edge, and would not really be too miffed if it got removed from here, I posted it here because a commenter in World News from lemmy.world said I should.
Ironically, that post/thread, in World News on lemmy.world has since been locked and removed.
Because apparently this is ‘US Internal News’ and doesn’t qualify as potentially having significant impacts on, ramifications to the entire world.
Not like the US Military is the largest in the world with the most bases all around the world or anything like that, not like the press being able to have any idea what they are doing outside of official governement press releases/propoganda could be relevant to anyone outside the US, I guess.
lol I was making the exact same decision you did. I’d love a headline that frames this as “Fox News joins the Press Freedom Movement” as OP does but we’ll have to settle for this.
Well heres to hoping the media finally found their spines. I’ll leave my comment at that, though I’d like to add more…
Trying on these uplifting vibes for a bit
Fucking assclown. Makes McNamara look good in comparison.
Thank you for including the specific media outlets’ names
No prob, its at the end of the article, I only copied over maybe 40% ish of it into the post here.
Those rules must really be awful for Fox News to not just suck Pete’s dick and swallow everything he feeds them.
I was gonna say! Even Fox News refuses?!
I’m genuinely shocked that Fox News didn’t bow down on this. And to an extent kinda shocked CNN didn’t either.
The Republican party is a bag of snakes chasing a meal. Once they actually have that meal they will eat each other for a piece. I look forward to the night of the long knives 2
That is an amazing phrase, damn!
They’re a coalition who’s common ground is vilifying “others”. The end goals of a number of them are fundamentally at odds. Parasites competing for a host. Lots of ways to word the inevitable here.
They’re a coalition who’s common ground is vilifying “others”.
Well damn if that doesn’t cut to the heart of the matter in under ten words
since ellison is a trump bootlicker, sooner or later he will try to make cnn obey. they are probably trying to remove liability of lawsuits down the line for reporting false things
ApesJournos, together, strong!
Don’t keep up much with us news. But trump aint leaving after 4 years. Ive seen the moves he’s making before. These are not the actions of a man looking at the short-term. Hes not planning for 2 years but 20.
Well, unless we’re going fully into sci fi dystopian ‘we are pretending the President is still actually alive and not a fucking fetid vegetable in an undisclosed location’…
No fucking way imo he makes it 20 more years, I’d be genuinely surprised if he made it to 2029.
I would also say the chance of an actual military coup/counter-coup is non zero.
Sure, JD or some other admin killerclown type person may end up in charge of a similar admin, but Trump is having seemingly regular strokes, more and more Republicans are turning on him as his angry pudding brain commands more and more insane gaffs, memory lapses, and absurd decisions, it might actually be possible to remove him with the 25th.
That all being said, none of that is guaranteed at all, and yes, Trump is clearly planning to be GodEmperor for life, problem is, he is not a perpetual.
I don’t know if GodEmperor, but President-for-life… maybe. Given his “amazing” health.
Doesn’t matter if he makes it 2 more years. What he’s doing is laying the groundwork for the next dictator to reap what he’s sown.
This is true and should absolutely not be discounted, but also, MAGA is literally a cult, and imo, is basically guaranteed to implode/collapse when Trump is finally recalled from being alive.
These goobers will Night of the Long Knives each other, which could potentially cause so much chaos thay potentially, if the Dems ever get their shit together, they could maybe kind of actually do something useful.
Who the hell knows, maybe at that point Elon goes back to his idea of making his own party, and … I tried to do the math based on polling on that back when he floated that idea, and you actually end up with a three party system, Dems edge out Elon party by a bit, Republicans are sizeable but smallest, Dems are libs to leftists, Elon is basically the corpo/libertarian party, Reps are basically racists and religious theocrats, Elon and Reps fight over varying subtypes of fascists.
Assuming Elon doesn’t end up prosecuted for his many DOGE crimes, among others… he is basically the one person who has enough money to be maybe be able to brute force starting a maybe viable third party.
even if does, the angecies are so gutted, and the scotus being conservative, dems are only getting the blame if they get elected again.
Looks like the news will have to concentrate on information not coming from the propaganda department. Time to dig deep in the dirt to see what the “Department of War” has to hide.
I wouldn’t doubt this administration taking this as an opportunity to ban everyone except OANN. Nothing is below them and nothing they do will surprise me.
i think one voice america is the only one that agreed, OANN doesnt want to risk another lawsuit.
At press time, only one outlet has said it plans to sign on to the new rules announced by the Pentagon, which the Trump administration now calls the “U.S. Department of War”: pro-Trump network One America News Network (OANN).
You’re reading this the wrong way. Why is the defense department censoring the media? What are they doing or planning that they don’t want the media, and therefore the people, to know about? If this was a practice run for limiting news, it’d be happening in some other department first.
I put this here because other people said I should.
(I
spammedposted this to a bunch of news comms for broad visibility)Their reasoning was that, while yes, it is very bad that the Trump admin is doing a literal textbook Nazi takeover of many things, including the media…
We’ve got Fox News and NewsMax also saying nope.
Go through that longer list and a good deal of them are also pretty conservative leaning.
So, what this maybe represents is a more general, broad realization and agreement that Trump is off his damn rocker, actual broad, formal institutional pushback, not just from ‘woke lib antifa terrorists’ or whatever.
This may be reading it the wrong way, but to me, it’s the right way. I am very glad to see the vast majority of news organizations stand together in giving Hegseth the finger. It’s refreshing that people can remember how to act like adults, put their partisan bickering aside, and recognize how vital free speech and freedom of the press are. It gives me hope for the future of my country.
This administration is such a nightmare that I NEED some good news.
Now is this the guy that went on a total psychosis moment and said that criminals and gangbangers aren’t as hardcore as he is? Or is this the guy that rounded up the nations top military generals to call them all fat? I mean, THAT guy wasn’t wrong. No more than a week later did they send meal team six to Chicago. Then recalled them a week later for being too fat.
We live in the dumbest timeline
Lmfao when did we start or stop doing this?
upholding the principles of a free and independent press.
